Social Security Disability Insurance: Time for Fundamental Change

Autor/inn/en	Burkhauser, Richard V.; Daly, Mary C.
Titel	Social Security Disability Insurance: Time for Fundamental Change
Quelle	In: Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 31 (2012) 2, S.454-461 (8 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0276-8739
DOI	10.1002/pam.21618
Schlagwörter	Income; Insurance; Disabilities; Labor Market; Social Services; Welfare Recipients; Change Strategies; Organizational Change; Finance Reform; Public Policy; Human Capital; Productivity; Input Output Analysis; Performance Factors; Policy Analysis; Program Administration; Program Effectiveness; United States + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Einkommen; Handicap; Behinderung; Labour market; Arbeitsmarkt; Social service; Soziale Dienstleistung; Soziale Dienste; Sozialhilfeempfänger; Sozialhilfeempfängerin; Lösungsstrategie; Organisationswandel; Financial reform; Finanzreform; Öffentliche Ordnung; Humankapital; Produktivität; Leistungsindikator; Politikfeldanalyse; USA
Abstract	The Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) program is growing at an unsustainable pace. Over the past 40 years the number of disabled worker beneficiaries has increased nearly sixfold, rising from 1.5 million in 1970 to 8.2 million in 2010. Rapid growth in the rolls has put increasing pressure on program finances. The rapid rise in SSDI caseloads and costs are made more worrisome when put in the context of the broader goals of the program--to protect the economic well-being of people with disabilities. On this front, the last 20 years have been especially disappointing. Since the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA), employment rates for those with disabilities have declined considerably and household income of these individuals has remained flat. Increasingly, people with disabilities are substituting SSDI benefits for labor market earnings, limiting their connection to the growth in the overall economy and making them net withdrawers rather than net contributors to the tax base during their working-age. This outcome challenges the finances of the SSDI program and is at odds with the view of disability codified in the ADA, namely that people with disabilities are able and willing to participate in the labor market. As such, it suggests that it is time for fundamental change in the SSDI program. Fundamental reform is needed to restore solvency to the U.S. disability insurance system and to support continued employment and greater self-sufficiency among workers with disabilities. (Contains 1 figure and 5 footnotes.) (ERIC).
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Update	2017/4/10